Abstract:After the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9 th , 1989, the process towards the Reunification of East and West Germany became referred to as a matter of "political orgasm," "German-German copulation" or "an orgiastic party." Behind these colourful metaphors, residents of the two states (in particular, those of East Germany) contended with momentous shifts in identity, mobility and political ideology that interacted with public sexual values and culture. This thesis analyzes media-based primary sources, incl… Show more
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